Electric-lamp-bulb manipulator



March 10, 1925- W. S. BRAUD ELECTRIC LAMP BULB MANIPULATOR Filed April 8, 1924 Mflfluad ATTORNEY WITNESS-M Patented Mar. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

WILTON S. BRAUD, F BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.

ELECTRIC-LAMIP-BULB MANIPULATOR.

Application filed April 18, 1924. Serial No. 707,493.

vision of a device through the medium of which electric lamp bulbs can be positioned in sockets and removed therefrom without the use of a ladder which is ordinarily necessary when the sockets are located a considerable distance over head.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the in vention consists in the improvement as here inafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a side elevation of the manipulator constituting the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 is an edge elevation taken at right angles to Figurel.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the upper end of the device.

Figure 4 is a cross-section taken in the plane indicated by the line H of Figure 1. Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

Among other elements my novel manipulator comprises a handle'l of appropriate length which may be and preferably is formed of wood.

Fixed to opposite sides of the handle 1 are standards 2, preferably of metal, which are brought into close proximity above the handle 1 as designatedby 3 for the purpose of pivoting therebetween a lever 4, the pivot point of said lever being, designated by 5. In this connection it will be noticed that the standard portions 3 are merged into curvilinear fingers 5 which are relatively arranged as shown and are covered with sleeves 6 of rubber or other appropriate padding material. Thelever 4 includes three arms 7, 8 and9. The arm 7 is curvilinear and is arranged opposite the space between the fingers 5 and is padded'by a sleeve 10 of rubber or other appropriate material. The arm 8 of the lever 4 is connected by a retractile spring 11 with an intermediate point in the length of the handle 1. Connected to the remaining arm 8 of the lever 4 and preferably, though not necessarily, connected at 12 to the lower portion of the handle 1 is a cable 13 through the medium of which an operator while holding the handle 1 in one ,14) 7 hand is enabled with his other hand to con veniently move the padded arm 7 relative to the curvilinear padded fingers. v

In the practical use of the manipulator, it

will be manifest that an operator is enabled (is P by moving the padded arm or finger7 away from the fingers 5 to position the arm 7 and fingers 5 about an incandescent electric lamp 7 bulb. Then when the arm 7 is permitted to I move toward the fingers 5 the bulb will be 7 securely grasped between the fingers 5 and arm 7 whereupon the bulb may be expeditiously and easily unscrewed and removed and this notwithstanding the fact that the bulb may be adjacent to a high ceiling.

W hen it is desired to utilize the device to put a bulb in an overhead socket or a socket otherwise out of reach, the bulb is placed by hand between the arm 7 and the fingers 5 whereupon the bulb is elevated through the 3 medium of the handle 1 and is screwed through the medium of the handle 1 into the socket designed to receive it.'

It will be manifest from the foregoing,

that my novel device is efi'icient and convenient in operation and at the same time is simple and inexpensive in construction.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, 1s: p An electric lamp bulb manipulator co1nprising a handle spaced standards fixed to and extending from said handle and terminating in curvilinear spaced fingers, a lever fulcrumed between the standards formed in one piece and having an upstand ing and curvilinear arm oppositethe space between the said fingers and an outwardly extending arm at the same side of the fulcrum point as said curvilinear armand 21-100 third arm extending at the opposite side of the fulcrum point, with reference to the two first-named arms, a retractile spring interposed between and directly connected to the handle and the third-named arm, and a cable 1 connected to the second-named arm and pendent alongside the handle.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILTON S. BRAUD.

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